I am in the middle of my green card process but are still exempt from paying SSN and medicare. How to file?

[Turbo-Tax-User1]

My W2 doesn't deduct medicare or SSN as I am exempt due to my current immigration status. Although, when I file online the system thinks I didn't pay them, therefore I don't have a refund but I owe money. How do I adjust that in my profile?

[KarenJ]

Are you an international student that has been here less than 5  years or part years?

[Turbo-Tax-User1]

Thanks for the response. I was an international student but I graduated in 2017 and have been in the US for 5+ years. I'm in the process of obtaining a marriage base green card. Due to my status, I am exempt of SSN and Medicare until I obtain my green card. I didn't receive it during 2018, therefore I am exempt for that year.

[KarenJ]

From the information on the IRS website, once you were no longer a nonresident (after 5 years or part years) , you became a resident on that visa and became responsible for Social Security and Medicare.

The IRS has published regulations which stipulate that aliens who arrive in the United States on F,J,M, or Q visas will be assumed to be "NONRESIDENT ALIENS," but only to the extent that the assumption is consistent with the residency rules of IRC section 7701(b). Since the social security/Medicare tax exemption for foreign students, scholars, teachers, researchers, and trainees under the Internal Revenue Code requires that the payee be a "NONRESIDENT ALIEN", then the social security/Medicare tax exemption ceases to exist at the point the payee becomes a " RESIDENT ALIEN " under the residency rules of IRC section 7701(b).

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-student-liability-for-social-securit...